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Ethan Gach
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Senior reporter at Kotaku. Have a gaming industry tip? You can reach me securely at ethangach@protonmail.com.

Potentially, although the thing underwater gives you that flying doesn’t are tunnels. The emphasis is on going deeper underwater, closer to the surface, where as flying in superman games has been a problem in part because it takes up you in the sky where there’s nothing interesting going on. Read more

That’s certainly not the intention. Hopefully people come away from a silly comparison like this feeling less enraged. Harassment is bad and never an appropriate way to express frustration or anger over something. Read more

As Alexstanfeld said above you can do segmented runs, but for world record attempts the clock is always running nonstop. For very, very long games, people will build micro-breaks into the schedule, usually during a cutscene or while the game is loading something. Read more

Lots of very good points Otaku, thanks for contributing to the discussion. Read more

Or that you can borrow from the past in ways that don’t try to pretend the bad stuff didn’t happen or wasn’t a part of it. Read more

I can see why CD feels like it might stretch them thin, but it needs to happen sooner or later. Read more

Skelux was only doing the Nintendo ones, but I’m sure there’s an effort underway to try and preserve other publisher’s flash games as well. I would love to post a more in-depth story about them at some point.

There are so many interesting little one-offs that you would never see these companies make nowadays. Read more

It’s definitely not the smoothest playing game. Moving along one plane while being able to shoot along X, Y, Z coordinates can get messy, and the Fez-like flipping of perspectives has pros and cons. That said, I love the feeling of simply being present in the world. The colors and sound effects make it sort of like Read more

There’s not much compared to TV in general, but a surprising amount compared to Star Trek. Read more

I’m very close to just giving one of the third-party see-thru shells a shot. Read more

alternate endings being held for the DLC smh Read more

Me wondering if B.J. was responsible for the Argent energy leaking out from hell in the first place

Would you rather see BJ fight demons tho or Doomguy fight nazis? Read more